New Stop-And-Frisk Reporting App

New Stop-And-Frisk Reporting App

Posted on Jul 21, 2012 3:55pm PDT

New York civil rights violation lawyers at The Perecman Firm welcome a
new smart phone application called The Stop and Frisk Watch. This new
app from the New York Civil Liberties Union allows people to report violations
of the New York Police Department’s controversial stop-and-frisk
policy, according to The New York Times (6/10/2012).

“This new app will make it easier for the NYCLU and civil rights
violation lawyers to investigate NYPD stop-and-frisks and determine if
and when minorities are being targeted, or if other civil rights are being
violated,” said David Perecman, founder of The Perecman Firm, one
of New York’s civil rights violation law firms. Individuals who
download the “Stop and Frisk Watch” app, can record questionable
incidents of police stopping and questioning people with the press of
a button, said the The New York Times.

Filming is stopped with a shake of the phone and a setting will lock the
phone once the video is stopped. Users can then send the video directly
to the NYCLU. NYPD stop and frisks have been widely denounced by civil
rights groups and lawyers at The Perecman Firm as unjustified stops that
mostly target minorities. According to the NYCLU, of the 685,000 people
stopped in 2011, 87 percent were black or Latino. Of the young black and
Latino men stopped by police, 90 percent were innocent, meaning they were
neither arrested nor ticketed.

Discrimination, racial profiling and bias-motivated harassment are examples
of civil rights violations important to the NYCLU and civil rights violation
lawyers at The Perecman Firm. Users of the app, which is available in
Spanish and English, also receive an alert when someone nearby is using
it to report a police stop. Individuals who believe they have been victims
of a New York civil rights violation including discrimination or racial
profiling can contact New York civil rights violation lawyers at The Perecman Firm.